Sun 15 August 2021: With the infectious Delta variant of Covid-19 rapidly spreading there has been a mounting pressure to be vaccinated, leading to exponential growth in fake coronavirus vaccine certificates, primarily on Telegram, according to Israel-based cybersecurity firm Check Point. The Check Point Research (CPR) has seen a whopping 257 per cent jump in […]
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Sat 14 August 2021: Poly Network, the cryptocurrency platform which lost $610 million in a hack earlier this week, confirmed on Friday it had offered the hacker or hackers a $500,000 “bug bounty.” In a statement it thanked the hacker — who it dubbed a “white hat”, sector jargon for an ethical hacker who generally […]
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Fri 13 August 2021: Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, virtual classrooms have become more than required around the world, and audio and video calling apps are continually introducing new features and enhancing their services to provide a better experience. Zoom has added a new ‘Focus’ mode to its popular video conferencing platform, which is intended […]
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Thu 12 August 2021: Nigeria’s ban on Twitter will be lifted soon after the government and Twitter reach an agreement to resolve their issues, the administration announced on Wednesday. The ban was announced in June, only days after President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement was removed off Twitter, sparking an international outrage over freedom of expression. According […]
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Wed 11 August 2021: Google announced a series of online safety features for kids on Tuesday, including a private setting for teen videos and a protection for adverts broadcast to users under the age of 18. The new features affect Google’s YouTube video platform as well as other online services such as search and Google […]
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Tue 10 August 2021: According to reports, TikTok, a Chinese short-video platform, has surpassed Facebook as the most downloaded social networking app on the planet. According to Nikkei Asia, a global survey of downloads in 2020 showed TikTok on top of the list of social media providers for the first time since the study was first conducted in 2018. The report said that TikTok’s parent company ByteDance launched the international version of short-video platform […]
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Sat 07 August 2021: Before flying from Earth to space from a base in New Mexico, Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson remarked, “My mission statement is to make the fantasy of space travel become a reality – for my grandkids, for your grandchildren, for everyone.” Now the company is restarting ticket sales for space tours beginning at $450,000, the Virgin Galactic announced Thursday. The new price is about double the $200,000 to $250,000 paid by around 600 people who previously booked seats on Virgin’s spaceship between 2005 and 2014, as the company looks to cash […]
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Fri 06 August 2021: The White House has finally responded on why Tesla was left out of their EV event. Tesla CEO Elon Musk expressed surprise this week that his company was not invited to the event, while executives from Ford, GM, and Stellantis stood alongside President Biden as he detailed an executive order calling […]
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Fri 06 August 2021: Apple Inc on Thursday said it will implement a system that checks photos on iPhones in the US before they are uploaded to its iCloud storage services to ensure the upload does not match known images of child sexual abuse. Detection of child abuse image uploads sufficient to guard against false […]
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Thu 05 August 2021: The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) stated on Wednesday that the Indian government’s requests that Twitter remove the “manipulated media” tags from some tweets were “over-reached” and beyond its “statutory powers”. The IFF is a non-government digital rights advocacy group in India. While asking Twitter to make its correspondence with the Indian […]
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